Artist Peter Root fashioned an entire little city of staples – an ephemicropolis! Hard to believe he spent 40 hours building the installation in the lobby of a building, using solely stacks of staples that were split into various sizes.

Slit house Japanese architects EASTERN design office have completed a house with slits instead of windows in Shiga, Japan. There are 60 long slashes in the building’s concrete exterior walls, some straight and some angled.